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A Davie man was indicted Wednesday on first-degree murder charges in the death of a 13-year-old Miramar girl whom police say he supplied with cocaine and heroin. JosM-i Enrique Melendez, 25, was charged with first-degree murder for distribution of heroin causing a death, felony first-degree murder for causing a death while committing aggravated child abuse, and aggravated child abuse, prosecutor Howard Scheinberg confirmed. Sherry Maresco, 13, a Silver Lakes Middle School seventh-grader, was found lying face-down in the living room of a friend's home on Feb. 19. Investigators said she had been vomiting and she died of pneumonia caused by cocaine toxicity, which caused bleeding in her lungs.

The woman who died after an alligator mauled her near Markham Park in May had toxic levels of alcohol and Xanax in her system, the Medical Examiner's Office said Monday. Still, Yovahana "Yovy" Suarez-Jimenez, 28, died as a result of the gator attack, not the mixture, said Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Josha Perper. "There are injuries from the alligator which indicate she was alive at the time," Perper said. A person is considered too impaired to drive with a blood alcohol concentration above .08, and Perper said the Davie woman's was three times that level.

Police say a Boca Raton doctor who specialized in addiction treatment prescribed pills to an undercover deputy at least eight times without ever giving her an examination. James Cocores now stands charged with trafficking and unlawfully writing prescriptions, according to a Boca Raton police report. An investigation began in February 2011, when the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office received an anonymous tip from a person saying Cocores had prescribed large amounts of Oxycodone without examinations.

Dear Dr. Donohue: I am 54 and have been having panic attacks for the past few years. For example, if I am to drive over high bridges, I fall apart. In fact, the same thing happens just about anywhere I have to go alone. I am now taking Xanax, but am not helped. When someone is with me, I'm OK. Can you tell me what can be done? - A.A. Dear A.A.: Biological alarm systems warn us when danger threatens. Our bodies brace. Our hearts race. We perspire. We tense our muscles and quicken our breathing.

His friend's bloodied head rested on his lap and Rob Smith could only look down in helpless horror. A bullet had pierced Smith's spine, leaving him paralyzed below the chest and trapped inside a car with two gunmen only feet away. He refused to shut his eyes to what was unfolding around him. He kept his eyes open after the gunmen fled and paramedics rushed him and his lifeless friend to the hospital. "I was afraid if I shut my eyes that I would die," Smith told a Broward Circuit Court jury on Friday.

Dear People's Pharmacy: My husband has Peyronie's disease. I can't remember the last time we had sex. I know it's been over a year. He has seen our primary doctor and a urologist. The only treatment the doctors recommended was vitamin E and something called Potaba. The urologist wants to treat the condition noninvasively, without surgery. This is fine and all, but it's NOT WORKING! What now? Are we doomed to a life without sex? Dear Reader: In Peyronie's disease, a patch of skin on the penis becomes fibrous and loses its ability to stretch.

Law enforcement officers from across the state are meeting in Fort Lauderdale today to discuss a phenomenon that killed more than 160 people in Broward County last year: prescription drug abuse. They do so on the heels of a Florida Medical Examiners Commission report released this week showing Broward County, more than any district in Florida, had more deaths in which alprazolam, the generic form of Xanax, and diazepam, the generic Valium, were present. Broward also ranked high in deaths from oxycodone -- the generic Oxycontin -- methadone and heroin, the report said.

Recent battle[s] triggering strict controls over prescribed pain medications have worried patients who suffer genuine pain. Physicians who examine their patients and acknowledge the reality that these people suffer significant pain will now [understandably] be reticent to do what they could to mitigate the suffering of their patients. It is unfortunate that the irresponsible actions of kids and adults in our communities cause patients with genuine pain to suffer when physicians pull back on pain relief measures.

Deputies busted Janet Nicole Klotzbier, 31, for allegedly stealing shopping carts full of merchandise last month from two Walgreen stores, one in Port Charlotte, the other in Murdock, according to a news release from the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office. Klotzbier was first arrested on on Dec. 8 after she was reportedly caught stealing an overflowing shopping cart with merchandise valued at $539 from a Walgreen's in Murdock. Deputies said they also found Xanax and Nuucyntha pills in her purse.

South Floridians turned in 1.5 tons of unwanted prescription medication to authorities as part of the DEA's first nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back event, officials said Tuesday. Law enforcement officers throughout the region collected the medications at police stations and other sites for four hours on Sept. 25 after inviting people to drop off unwanted pills and other medication — no questions asked. The program's aim was to get people to empty their medicine cabinets so powerful and addictive prescription narcotics don't fall into the wrong hands.